Ross Zbar

Ross Zbar is an American plastic surgeon and member of both the American Society of Plastic Surgery and the American College of Surgeons. He was the first Webster Fellow (1999-2000) of "Interplast", a humanitarian volunteer organization based in Mountain View, CA which sends reconstructive teams to developing countries.

Background

Zbar has written extensively on applying outcome studies (known as metrics) to these trips. He is the first surgeon to document the objective impact these volunteer missions can have on the local medical environment.

Zbar is a graduate of Harvard University and the Yale University School of Medicine. He trained first in Otolaryngology at the University of Iowa from 1993-1997. During this time, he performed research in deafness that isolated specific genes. He was able to do this by investigating highly consanguinous families located in rural India. He then completed his plastic surgery training at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center under the direction of Rod Rohrich, MD from 1997-1999. He holds board certification in both Otolaryngology as well as Plastic Surgery.

Other academic work by Zbar includes landmark research in the vomeronasal organ. He has also written extensively on various reconstructive surgery techniques. Zbar presently serves as Medical Director of the Mountainside Hospital Wound Care Center.

References

*Zbar RIS, Rai SM and Dingman DL. Establishing cleft surgery in developing nations: A model for the new millennium. Plastic Recon Surg 2000; 106:886.
*Zbar RIS, Otake LR, Miller MJ, Persing JA and Dingman DL. Web based medicine as a means to establishing centers of surgical excellence in the developing world. Plastic Recon Surg 2001; 108:460.
*Langstein HN, Zbar RIS and Dingman DL. Teaching microsurgery in western academic centers and in the developing world. Seminars in Plastic Surg. 2003; 17:17.
*Zbar RIS, Ramesh A, Srisailapathy CRS, Fukushima K, Wayne S and Smith RJH. Passage to India: The search for genes causing autosomal recessive nonsyndromic hearing loss. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 1998; 118(3):333-337.
*Zbar RIS, Zbar LIS, Dudley C, Trott SA, Rohrich RJ and Moss RL. A classification schema for the vomeronasal organ in humans. Plastic Recon Surg 2000; 105:1284-1288.
*Rohrich RJ and Zbar RIS. The Evolution of the Hughes tarsoconjunctival flap for lower eyelid reconstruction. Plastic Recon Surg 1999; 104:518-523.
*Rohrich RJ and Zbar RIS. A simplified algorithm for the use of Z-plasty. Plastic Recon Surg 1999; 103:1513-1517.
*Zbar RIS and Canady JW. “Cold Injuries” in Plastic Surgery, Second Edition, Volume 1, pages 855 – 862; Saunders, Philadelphia, PA: 2006.
*Broughton G and Zbar RIS. “Burns and Postburn Reconstruction” in Selected Readings in Plastic Surgery, Volume 10, Number 7, Part 2, 2005.